In the present study, an attempt has been made to identify genetically divergent promising lines and their F1 progenies, so as to select the potential parents for breeding programme to attain the anticipated improvement in fruit yield per plant of sponge gourd either by crossing two dissimilar parents to get heterotic F1 or by making single cross, three way cross, double cross and selfing of crosses (F1) obtained by the divergent parents of sponge gourd. |